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Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running (arstechnica.com)

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)

The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)

TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads (www.gsmarena.com)

Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)

Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)

Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI (www.nature.com)

IMF boss warns of AI 'tsunami' coming for world's jobs (www.theregister.com)

Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)

A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows (phys.org)

World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Superyacht Embodies Eco-Conscious Luxury (nicenews.com)

Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon (english.elpais.com)

US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week (www.arenaev.com)

Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (www.nature.com)

Qualcomm and Intel can't sell chips to Huawei anymore, report claims (www.gsmarena.com)

Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: (thehill.com)

TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment (www.nbcnews.com)

Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ (english.elpais.com)

„If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” (english.elpais.com)

Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 (www.gsmarena.com)

Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors (english.elpais.com)

Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2 (e360.yale.edu)

Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent (www.theregister.com)

30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok (www.honest-broker.com)

Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)

TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 (www.theregister.com)

Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion (arstechnica.com)

Honor and Huawei topped China's smartphone market in Q1 (www.gsmarena.com)

Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)

Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days (www.arenaev.com)

It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (www.theatlantic.com)

Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet (www.theregister.com)

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth (blogs.nasa.gov)

What is screen time doing to children? Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media. (www.economist.com)

UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones (www.bbc.com)

Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (arstechnica.com)

AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report (www.nature.com)

Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce (www.bbc.com)

Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy (www.theregister.com)

Figure 01, the robot closest to the humanoid machines of science fiction (english.elpais.com)

Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit (www.theregister.com)

Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility (www.theatlantic.com)

America Is Sick of Swiping (www.theatlantic.com)

Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more (www.npr.org)

What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) (www.theatlantic.com)

AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)

Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)